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Arizona faces challenges for getting citizens to vote

Voter participation is continuing to erode in the United States. The situation here in Arizona is a crisis, according to a study by Morrison Institute for Public Policy at ASU. In Arizona, only 58 percent of eligible voters turn out on average.




Arizona teachers seeing first salary increases

KTVK 3TV Phoenix reported that Arizona school teachers are returning to classrooms with many of them seeing their first significant pay raise. It took an historic protest with tens of thousands of teachers walking out of the classroom before Gov. Doug Ducey offered a better pay deal, promising a 20 percent raise over the next two years.




Deadline approaches to register for Arizona's primary elections

KVOA NBC4 News in Tucson reported that according to a new report by the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona ranked 43rd in the country for voter turnout in the 2016 presidential election, with 56 percent of voters going out to the polls and only 19 percent of millenni




Study finds only half of millennials register to vote

KTAR News reported that a study done by Morrison Institute for Public Policy at ASU found that despite the fact that millennials outnumber baby boomers in Arizona by about 170,000, only 51 percent of millennials are registered to vote, compared to 74 percent of baby boomers.


Nearly half of eligible voters in Arizona don’t cast ballots
Joseph Garcia, with Tom Collins
July 27, 2018

This column first appeared July 26, 2018 at Arizona Capital Times.




Guv candidate calls for ICE overhaul

The Arizona Capitol Times reported on the political risk and potential impact of Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Garcia calling to overhaul the federal ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) agency.

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Community growth dependent on water management

KJZZ reported that the exotic animal park Out of Africa in Camp Verde, Arizona wants to expand to add a hotel, conference center and possibly a water park. For the water park in particular, investors would want assurances the site had a defined water source and buy-in from the community.




Arizona's changing voter demographics

Joseph Garcia, Director of the Latino Public Policy Center at ASU's Morrison Institute was a guest on KTAR and explained how changing voter demographics in Arizona could turn the state blue in the near future.

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Effort needed to register new voters

Tucson News Now reported that ONE Arizona, a non-partisan coalition of 19 organizations dedicated to Latino voter registration, immigration, economic justice and education, announced the launch of the statewide effort to register thousands of new voters by this fall.

The effort is needed in Arizona, according to a study by the Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Morrison Institute.


Millennials and independents keep skipping Arizona elections. Why? And what's the fix?
Andrea Whitsett, with Damien R. Meyer
July 23, 2018

This column first appeared July 22, 2018 at azcentral.

Opinion: Only 55 percent of eligible Arizona voters cast a ballot in 2016. Could a lack of information on offices and issues be part of the culprit?

We know too many potential voters are skipping Arizona elections. But why? And most importantly, what we can do about it?